Let's see your vintage Schwinn Cimarron
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Here is a 1987 Cimarron I picked up recently, I did a little stable swap horse trading to bring it home. Definitely no beauty queen like bconneraz minty examples, this one has been enjoyed and has all the scratches, nicks, chips, and chain suck to prove it but the full Shimano XT group is present (even the large platform XT pedals- score!!!). The stock Schwinn Terra tires have been replaced with period correct Tioga tires from the late '80's. The Nitto stem and bar were swapped with a chrome Tioga quill stem and a flat MTN bar.
This Cimarron is not my size and I don't need another in my stable because nothing can take the place of my custom '88 LE resto-mod but for the sake of preserving an almost original bike I had to make the trade. Who knows what will happen down the line... maybe a bike for my daughter when she gets a little taller, but it's safe for now.
Here are a few photos...
This Cimarron is not my size and I don't need another in my stable because nothing can take the place of my custom '88 LE resto-mod but for the sake of preserving an almost original bike I had to make the trade. Who knows what will happen down the line... maybe a bike for my daughter when she gets a little taller, but it's safe for now.
Here are a few photos...
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Last year a Cimarron was on CL for $175. I thought a bit about it- and came to the decision that I had enough bikes, and as much as the Cimarron was really the ultimate ATB/Tour hybrid- I didn't ride my High Sierra enough to justify taking this bike away from someone who wanted it and would be tickled silly to have it.
Now I think- WHAT THE **** WAS I THINKING!!!!
Beautiful bike and great repurposing it @4funbikes!
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Well, I just found #3 , a 1987 model. Kept my streak alive, when I find one, I buy it.
The bike is pretty much full Deore XT, love the bronze Nitto stem and bronze chain rings. Looks very original to me, although I was surprised it did not have bronze rims.
I now have a 1987, the 1988 LE, and a 1989. This one is definitely too small for me, and too large for my wife.
As found condition, dirty, but pretty decent. The last pic is the headbadge on my LE: 3287 = November 24th, 1987 = 1988 model.
The bike is pretty much full Deore XT, love the bronze Nitto stem and bronze chain rings. Looks very original to me, although I was surprised it did not have bronze rims.
I now have a 1987, the 1988 LE, and a 1989. This one is definitely too small for me, and too large for my wife.
As found condition, dirty, but pretty decent. The last pic is the headbadge on my LE: 3287 = November 24th, 1987 = 1988 model.
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The stem and chainrings started out as black (apparently they sun-fade to bronze?), however the original Araya "Hard Anodized" RM-20 or RM-25 rims were originally bronze. What rims are on there now?
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They are Araya RM-20s.
Pics of the stem and chain rings.
Pics of the stem and chain rings.
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Interesting, they don't look faded, perhaps they ran out of the hard anodized versions? BTW, what is the date on the frame? I have one built just over a month earlier (dated 0297 with a frame dated I6xxxxx = Sept. '86) and it came with bronze hard anodized RM-25s. It is a 22" frame, I think they were using the wider RM-25 on larger frames and the RM-20 on smaller frames.
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^ Great to see these things surfacing. I'm always on the prowl for another.
Thanks The Golden Boy. The bike is all business. It's my go to for most situations.
The High Sierra is a great bike. I upgraded from one. Though next time you see a Cimarrron; Jump on it!
Thanks The Golden Boy. The bike is all business. It's my go to for most situations.
The High Sierra is a great bike. I upgraded from one. Though next time you see a Cimarrron; Jump on it!
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Interesting, they don't look faded, perhaps they ran out of the hard anodized versions? BTW, what is the date on the frame? I have one built just over a month earlier (dated 0297 with a frame dated I6xxxxx = Sept. '86) and it came with bronze hard anodized RM-25s. It is a 22" frame, I think they were using the wider RM-25 on larger frames and the RM-20 on smaller frames.
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Well, I just found #3 , a 1987 model. Kept my streak alive, when I find one, I buy it.
The bike is pretty much full Deore XT, love the bronze Nitto stem and bronze chain rings. Looks very original to me, although I was surprised it did not have bronze rims.
I now have a 1987, the 1988 LE, and a 1989. This one is definitely too small for me, and too large for my wife.
As found condition, dirty, but pretty decent. The last pic is the headbadge on my LE: 3287 = November 24th, 1987 = 1988 model.
The bike is pretty much full Deore XT, love the bronze Nitto stem and bronze chain rings. Looks very original to me, although I was surprised it did not have bronze rims.
I now have a 1987, the 1988 LE, and a 1989. This one is definitely too small for me, and too large for my wife.
As found condition, dirty, but pretty decent. The last pic is the headbadge on my LE: 3287 = November 24th, 1987 = 1988 model.
And the rarity of them in general.
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I actually have seen that before on other unique unannounced Schwinn models like the Sport Limited, which appear to all have been built during about 2 weeks in late '77. In a similar fashion I would believe that Schwinn built all of the Cimarron LE models at the same time since it was also an unannounced model. If we could collect the frame and badge numbers of these it would help to confirm or deny.
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Check it out, the 974 even had the "Klein weld" treatment at the bottom bracket shell and the yoked seat stay just like Gary's bikes.
I'm glad I snagged it too but I needed another bike at the house like I needed another trip to the bicycle doghouse courtesy of the misses... stink eye included at no extra charge. Now that it's safe and sound, it needs to go away! You're the Cimarron King, thumb through your Rolodex and find someone in your Cimarron Kingdom that needs this bike... quick like a bunny!!!
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Thanks everyone for all the nice photos and research, got a 1988 (you guys made that part easy) at a thrift store yesterday for $18. Looks like bairly ridden, with one of the two tires being the original. Knew the lugs / chromoly meant a better quality than the normal horrible bikes there. Didn't think it was 30 years old though! May revisit after a while with some pics.
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That's when my black stem faded to bronze. And it does look mighty styley in bronze- especially with the "bronze-y" black chrome finish on the frame.
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It does look pretty cool. That stem looks exactly like the Nitto MT-5 used on the Cimarron, however I do think the finishes are different. The Nitto seems to be painted (powder coated?) while the stem on the High Sierra seems to be anodized?
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I'm usually a lurker so this is my first time posting and I know this has been dead for a bit but since this thread made me wanna buy a Cimarron I wanted to post for once! There's been a Cimarron for sale here on craigslist for weeks and I didn't really pay much attention to it cause I didn't realize how great they are and even though I've been on the prowl for a good quality rigid mountain bike to turn into my commuter and upgrade from the 98 GT Outpost I've been riding I didn't even really look at the little red Schwinn. I can't remember what search brought me to this thread but all of the bikes look amazing and I remembered there's one for sale here for $80!! To close this up I'm basically trying to go pick it up tonight and it's all of y'alls faults Here's the pics from Craigslist for now...
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1987 Cimmaron owned since new.
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There she is ^^^
A little rough. I think that seat I took off weighed 27 pounds. I'm thinking drop bar and maybe powdercoat. Was gonna leave it stock but now that I have a 88 LE in the works I kinda wanna do something cool with this one and make it my commuter.
A little rough. I think that seat I took off weighed 27 pounds. I'm thinking drop bar and maybe powdercoat. Was gonna leave it stock but now that I have a 88 LE in the works I kinda wanna do something cool with this one and make it my commuter.
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There she is ^^^
A little rough. I think that seat I took off weighed 27 pounds. I'm thinking drop bar commuter and maybe powdercoat. Was gonna leave it stock but now that I have a 88 LE in the works I kinda wanna do something cool with this one and make it my commuter.
A little rough. I think that seat I took off weighed 27 pounds. I'm thinking drop bar commuter and maybe powdercoat. Was gonna leave it stock but now that I have a 88 LE in the works I kinda wanna do something cool with this one and make it my commuter.
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Yea I have'nt written off keeping the stock paint. After I actully clean it up I'll think harder about it. I have a couple of bikes I need to get done before including a 93 Trek 750 that I'm trying to sell.